Technological initiatives are required to put the U.S. economy back on track, Vice President Joseph Biden said on Monday in Michigan.

Biden, at a construction site in Midland, where Dow Kokam is building a factory to produce car batteries for electrically powered vehicles, said, "If we just restored the economy that existed in 1995, that is not enough to lead the world."

The Detroit News has reported that battery production at the site is expected to put 800 people to work, as well as provide 1,000 construction jobs to build the factory.

New York, March 30 : The lawyer representing US Vice President Joseph Biden's daughter's 'friend', who claimed having shot a video of her purportedly snorting cocaine, has abandoned the case.

Thomas Dunlap revealed he was no longer the attorney for the man who was trying to sell the 43-minute tape that allegedly showed Ashley Biden taking lines of white powder at a party in Deleware.

New York, Jan 31 : A landmark US bill that provides for 15 billion dollars in economic assistance to Pakistan, as a US frontline ally in combating terrorism over the next
10 years beginning 2009, is legally dead even before it was debated and voted by either chamber of the US bicameral legislature.

Munich - Vice President Joseph Biden is to make a "major" speech about the new US administration's defence and foreign policy at the end of next week in Munich, the organizer of a German conference said Thursday.

Wolfgang Ischinger said the address at the annual Munich security conference would set out the position of the administration of President Barack Obama, which was why Biden was attending rather than the US defence secretary who usually represents Washington.

Washington, Jan. 7 : Incoming U. S. Vice-President Joe Biden's proposed trip to Asia before he leaves his present assignment as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is raising concerns in the corridors of power in Washington.

According to Politico, Biden will be traveling to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Washington, Nov 5 : Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. sees his role in Barack Obama’s Administration as “adviser in chief,” using his decades of experience in the Senate to offer the new US President candid input on domestic and foreign policy issues, his aides have said.

But Biden, a twice-failed presidential candidate, will not use the post in a way many vice presidents have: To make a play for the Oval Office. He has said publicly that he does not intend to run for the presidency again, the Washington Post reported.

Sterling (Virginia, US), Sept. 20: Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Friday that he wanted to end the cowboy mentality of the Bush-McCain era”.

"These guys have worshipped at the shrine of deregulation,” Bidentold about 1,000 supporters at a women's issues rally at Claude Moore Park.

Biden called for short-term, immediate intervention to “staunch the bleeding” in the financial markets and that in the long term, “we have to have a major, major overhaul of how the financial system works.”

According to the New York Times, the New York Daily News and others, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden is emerging as the clear favourite to be Barack Obama’s running mate.

Biden needs to thank his foreign policy bonafides for this. It was on show during his high profile trip to Georgia and call for aid to the country.

"Barring a big surprise or last-minute change of heart, the choice is likely to be Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee," Howard Fineman wrote on MSNBC today.

Washington, Feb 27: US Senator Joseph Biden has said that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will gently withdraw himself from power.

"I think he will go gently into the night," Biden said after returning from Pakistan, where he monitored the February 18 elections.

Biden, addressing a meeting at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, said he has known Musharraf for 12 years and met him the morning after the elections.

Washington, Feb 25: Democratic Senator Joseph Biden has said President Pervez Musharraf should make a "graceful exit" before he is forced out of power.

Biden, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was in Pakistan recently along with Senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel to monitor the elections.

He dismissed reports that the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) defeat in elections is a setback for the US operations against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Lahore, Feb 18: Democratic Senator Joseph Biden has urged authorities in Pakistan to ensure that the February 18 elections are free and fair, and cautioned that there could be riots in the country if the elections are rigged.

"Without an open election that gain the confidence of the vast majority of the middle class here, there will be great turmoil," The News quoted Biden, as saying.

Washington, Feb 16: Democratic Senator Joseph Biden has said that the US should cut off military aid to Pakistan if parliamentary elections in that country are not free, fair and transparent.

Biden, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pointed out that there would be riots in Pakistan if elections were rigged.

Washington's "only real leverage" against the administration of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was military aid, he added.

"I would move to cut off aid to Pakistan, military aid," The News quoted Biden, as saying.

Washington, Nov 9 : Democratic presidential hopeful and Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph Biden, has laid out a four-point aid plan for Pakistan in a bid to make the bilateral relationship predictable and even keel.

The first point of the proposal says that the US must triple non-security aid to 1.5 billion dollars annually for at least a decade. This aid would be unconditioned. It would be the US’ pledge to the Pakistani people, as, instead of funding military hardware, it would build schools, clinics, and roads.